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    Posted: 19 Jul 2024 at 12:42
Fixtures are out Monday at midday as per the Championship Instagram account! 
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A nice home game start please? 🙏 
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Fixtures out. Ealing travel to the Mennaye for week 2.
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Chinnor have no league fixtures after October 19th until November 30th.

Presumably there will be a Cup competition during this period ?
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There are two big gaps, which are the autumn internationals and the six nations.
We assume the cup will happen in those periods.
But, if you are knocked out, you are going to need to find friendlies to cover the end of the second gap.
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On our website there are Cup dates shown for October and November but there’s been no info on opposition.
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There would appear to be 6 cup matches for each club Not sure how the pools will be structured but with 6 games it would be logic to be pools of 4 with home and away. However if this includes premier clubs that makes 22 teams again there is a quarter , (8 teams, Semi and final on three consecutive weekends so blank Saturdays for those teams who do not get through for three weeks in March plus a reserve weekend on 22nd Feb. Who ever wins the league will have 2 further matches in June against Bottom of Prem (so long as they can reach ground criteria) and then will have only a short time to recruit if the win, for the upcoming premiership season best of luck with that.
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Originally posted by fatbear fatbear wrote:

Chinnor have no league fixtures after October 19th until November 30th.

Presumably there will be a Cup competition during this period ?
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I note the Prem have fixtures on the weekend of 25/27th Oct - so that will be blank for us.
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The cup is split into two parts 
Part 1 - 5 week block with 2 reserve weeks
26-Oct-24 Reserve
02-Nov-24 Cup Week 1
09-Nov-24 Cup Week 2
16-Nov-24 Reserve
23-Nov-24 Cup Week 3
Part 2 - 7 week block including 1 reserve week quarter, Semi,  and final. 
01-Feb-25 Cup Week 4
08-Jan-25 Cup Week 5
15-Feb-25 Cup Week 6
22-Feb-25 Reserve
01-Mar-25 Cup Quarter Final
08-Mar-25 Cup Semi Final
15-Mar-25 Cup Final
Anyone knocked out  after 15 Feb will have 4 blank weeks before next league fixture on 22 March 
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Why have a cup reserve week at beginning of block 1, isn't that really a league reserve week for catch up before the cup games start.
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And of course, the odds are that most of the 8 quarter finalists will be Premiership sides.
So all championship clubs should plan for four blank weekends.
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Why?  Championship sides should be able to defeat Premiership second teams surely?
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Originally posted by Kimbo Kimbo wrote:

Originally posted by fatbear fatbear wrote:

Chinnor have no league fixtures after October 19th until November 30th.

Presumably there will be a Cup competition during this period ?
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Ealing was the only side in the top two of a pool last season.
Coventry was the only other side to beat a Premiership side.

The Premiership clubs have first call on all loan players, so the Championship sides are not at their strongest.

Admittedly, the timing is different, last season the Premiership sides were using the matches as pre-season games, so they were not resting players.
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Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

Ealing was the only side in the top two of a pool last season.
Coventry was the only other side to beat a Premiership side.

The Premiership clubs have first call on all loan players, so the Championship sides are not at their strongest.

Admittedly, the timing is different, last season the Premiership sides were using the matches as pre-season games, so they were not resting players.

It would be great if the top two teams in each pool went through to the knockouts. I think that would keep the pool stages interesting until the very end and would hopefully mean more Champ representation in the knockout rounds. 


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We do have quarter-finals this year, so it is the top two - out of six - in each pool.
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Ah sorry I missed that thanks! 2 or 3 representatives from the Champ would be great!
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Doncaster Knights home fixture announcement 

We can now confirm that all the home fixtures will be played on Saturdays at 2:30pm with the exception of Hartpury. This fixture will take place on Sunday the 29th of December
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I've forgotten the purpose of the cup. Can anyone remember? 

Seems to me that any team with less than 30 fixtures per season (40 hours playing time) will be looking down the barrel of a financial shotgun. 

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